San Quentin State Prison

7 posts

 ‘I was silenced’: San Quentin News editor-in-chief fired for prison reform efforts

Having suffered in the prison system for 30 years, I just wanted to help people heal and get home to their families. Instead, prison administrators took away my platform and labeled me a threat.

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5 Min
By: Steve Brooks

San Quentin delays and denies hepatitis C care to affected incarcerated people

Luis Edward Gama arrived at California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi in 2016. While being processed, he tested positive for hepatitis C, but because he had 15 months left on his sentence, California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS) denied his treatment. Seven years later, Gama returned to prison and was diagnosed

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3 Min
By: Joey Scott, Timothy Peoples

California’s plan to rebrand prisons doesn’t consider climate change

At a time when the window to mitigate the worst effects of climate change is closing, Gov. Gavin Newsom is placing political goals ahead of data-based policy proposals

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14 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

‘If my life is to matter, then mail must matter. Support must matter.’

Timothy James Young has been wrongfully incarcerated on death row since 1999. Letters line his path to freedom

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4 Min
By: Timothy James Young

Incarcerated students can now teach at the first accredited prison college in the US

New initiatives at Mount Tamalpais College allow people incarcerated at San Quentin to design and teach their own workshops

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5 Min
By: Steve Brooks, Olivia Heffernan

Advocates use fashion to promote abolition and illustrate the toll of incarceration

Fashion can inspire deeper criticism of the carceral system, but there are risks when profit comes before principle

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10 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Incarcerated mentor, community leader poised for deportation to Cambodia

Advocates say Phoeun You’s deportation to Cambodia would be a painful loss for the community

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5 Min
By: Rae Deng

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